Hemidrachm

Trikka, a small city in the Thessalian plain near the headwaters of the Peneios river, is credited in ancient sources as the birthplace of Asklepios, and the city's coinage was among the earliest to deploy his image in a numismatic context — predating the sanctuary coinage of Epidauros by decades. Whether that claim of origin was genuine civic pride or deliberate religious branding to attract pilgrims toward a local healing cult is a question the literary sources never fully resolve.

The BCD collection specimens, now dispersed, remain the principal reference points for die linkage work on this series.